Sleep

Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing [dreams]1 beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
[I may feel]2 an influence
All my powers of care bereaving.

Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!

by John Fletcher (1579-1625) , "Sleep", from The Woman Hater, published 1607

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive)

by Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) , "Sleep", 1926.
by Peggy Glanville-Hicks (1912-1990) , "Come sleep", published 1938. [voice and piano]
by Ivor Gurney (1890-1937) , "Sleep", from Five Elizabethan Songs (The Elizas), no. 4.
by Peter Warlock (1894-1930) [pseudonym] , "Sleep", 1922, published 1923.

GER German (Julia Hamann)

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